Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis